Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.58050, -7.17847
- SMR number
- KK024-059002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On brow of gentle W-facing slope with good views from S-W-N. The River Nore flows roughly N-S c. 300m to the W. A public road runs roughly N-S c. 10m to the E. There is a medieval church (KK024-059001-) centrally placed within the graveyard. A circular area (overall diam. c. 63m; int. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by a stone wall and entered from the E side via a gate with capped piers on either side. The gravestones are concentrated in the W half of the graveyard and none are earlier in date than the late 18th century. The earliest headstone noted by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 488) dated to 1723. The stone wall enclosing the graveyard was built on the fosse of the original ecclesiastical enclosure (KK024-059003-), the internal bank of this enclosure being retained within the stone wall of the graveyard.
See attached:
KK024-059001-_01 Google Earth street view image from the SE, May 2009
KK024-059002-_01 Google Earth street view image from the NE, May 2009
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.